From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
This is indeed a bit strange, but here’s to the crazy ones!
Source Christopher Buecheler
Pattern Background, Texture, Photoshop Structure style CC0 texture.
Source Darkmoon1968
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
One more in the line of patterns inspired by Japanese/Asian styles. Smooth.
Source Kim Ruddock
Old China with a modern twist, take two.
Source Adam Charlts
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Black brick wall pattern. Brick your site up!
Source Alex Parker
Remixed from a drawing in 'The March of Loyalty', Letitia MacClintock, 1884.
Source Firkin
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
More leather, and this time it’s bigger! You know, in case you need that.
Source Elemis
A lovely light gray pattern with stripes and a dash of noise.
Source V. Hartikainen
A bit like smudged paint or some sort of steel, here is scribble light.
Source Tegan Male
A seamless texture of an abstract wall colored in shades of light orange brown.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
One can never have too few rice paper patterns, so here is one more.
Source Atle Mo
Not even 1kb, but very stylish. Gray thin lines.
Source Struck Axiom